Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-01-14
Where it is Made.

III mas OFTEN btcl tnbuSnJ anu Saltl
hy the uninformcd that the Democratic ic
States produce and Use more distilled
liquors than Republican States. But
| the following statistics taken from the
official report OF the Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue for the year ending
October 81, 1856, fully contradicts and
| disproves this charge. The whole
| number of gallons of distilled liquors
produced III the United States for the
, , year preceding was S1,S49,447. Hi
nois produced nearly One-third of all
this, that State turning out %, ,149,9S1
gallons. Kentucky comes next with
20,73S,27 gallons. Ohio comes next
with I0,336,9S0 gallons. The sure
Democratic States OF Alabama, Arkan-
sas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississip-
pi, Missouri, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
and West Virginia produced last year
2S,413,44S gallons. The sure Republi-
can States of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas
Maine, Massachusetts,, Minnesota, Ne
braska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Vermont
and Wisconsin produced 45,47O,694
Thus sixteen sure Democratic States
produce little over half as many gal
Ions rs fourteen Republican States
During the same period in all the
States there were produced G42 OBS, ,5l3
gallons of malt liquors, of which
amount the sixteen Democratic States
above mentioned produced 70,57G,39l
gallons, and the fourteen Republican
States produced 272,7l5,525 gallons.
Illinois alone produced 42,l25,063 gal
Ions, being more than half as much
us al the sixteen Democratic
States. Ohio produced 54,9S5, Alb,
Pennsylvania G5,7I2963 and Wiscon-
sin 4G,l37,74 gallons. While this
does not show where these liquors
are consumed, yet the facts and figures
are given i'll the report of the Commits
sioncr OF Internal Revenue, from
which We may plainly infer where they
are largely consumed. Taking the
whole number of liquor dealers in each
State as reported by the Commits
s;oncr of Internal Revenue and COM
pairing it with the population of each
State as shown by the census of 1880
it will be seen to give the following
facts: In the sixteen Democratic
States above named there is one liquor
dealer to every GOO inhabitants, while
in the fourteen Republican States
there is one liquor dealer to every 2S3
Inhabitants. The prohibition State of
Iowa has one dealer to every 39l in
habitants. The Democratic State of
Alabama has one dealer to every | ,105
inhabitants. Kansas has one to every
4O6 inhabitants, Arkansas one to every
LIS inhabitants Maine has one to
every 624, while South Carolina has
one to every l,OOl inhabitants.
1t is evident from these and other
facts which crop cut in the report, that
there is more liquor drank in these
Republican StatGs than in the Demo-
cratic States named. We leave our
readers to search out the cause each
for himself, volunteering the statement
that any one who undertakes to solve
the problem upon the principle that
any people drink more or less simply
because they are Democrats or Repub-
licans will be sadly led astray in his
investigations. This every one may
confidently rely upon, that no man
drinks more because he is Democrat
nor less because he is n Republican.